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Start Your Morning With Wake-up Club For PS Vita Next Week

Back in April, we unveiled a host of new applications coming to PS Vita, including Wake-up Club, a new interactive way to start your day with other PS Vita owners. Next Tuesday, the application will be available to download for free on the PS Vita PlayStation Store in North America!

Let’s face it: getting up in the morning isn’t something we usually look forward to, but Wake-up Club adds some social fun into the mix to make getting out of bed more bearable. In addition to adding alarm clock functionality to PS Vita for the first time, including the ability to personalize your alarm tone and background theme, Wake-up Club matches 12 randomly selected players who set their alarm clock at the same time into a—you guessed it—wake-up club!

As soon as your alarm goes off, your avatar will begin bouncing around the PS Vita touchscreen. Tapping your avatar lets other players know you’re now awake. Once in the virtual club room, you can see other players’ avatars, as well as who’s awake and who’s still sleeping. Tapping the sleeping players’ avatars will “cheer” them on. If you happen to keep snoozing though, you’ll notice that the rest of the Wake-up Club players will begin appearing on your screen. Swipe them away and tap your avatar to join the rest of the group. Additionally, you can send friend requests and find out more information about each player by tapping their avatar. Make sure to check out your club records to see how many times you’ve managed to wake up within five minutes, how many consecutive successes you’ve managed, and the average time it takes you to wake up.

To get set up with Wake-up Club, access your PS Vita system’s Settings menu, choose Date & Time, then Date & Time Settings. Ensure that Set Automatically is ticked. Then you’re good to go! Be sure to check out Wake-up Club when it launches on the PS Vita PlayStation Store next Tuesday, January 15th. Happy snoozing!

1. Yes each night there will be 12 random people you are paired with.
2. Different alarm tones can be chosen from the list provided by the app. There will be future DLCs with new alarm tones and themes.

Don’t worry Morggo (and other trophy whores out there). You will get to pad your trophy list for just waking up in the morning. Info you could have gotten for yourself with 15 seconds and one Google search. There are 12 trophies. 1-Gold, 3-Silver, 8-Bronze.

Actually, if you get the trophies without altering the Vita’s internal clock, there’s one for Joing the Wake Up Club 365 times. One full year to collect a Bronze trophy. Twisted, I like it.

With Vita sales sorely lacking, and few decent games on the horizon for 2013, I’m glad Sony took the time to make an alarm clock app. This will certainly save the floundering console, and make us early adopters proud of our $250+ purchases.

Hoping that a firmware update to add folder functionality and being disable the auto dimming are coming soon. Moreover, a new PS Store for PS Vita and Treasure Park could use an update as well, perhaps with less Please Wait screens.

Awesome! Now I have one more thing to wake up on time. Since starting school again after winter break, I’m sleeping through both my Phone and PC alarms. Hope this gives me a bit of motivation! Also, please tell me this has trophies.

Not knocking this app, it’s pretty cool for the social networking type but am I the only person in the world who gets up as soon as the alarm clock goes off? I know people to sleep for an hour with the phone sitting right by their ear going off repeatedly. Kinda wanna bash their heads in with something.

Finally, I wanted to see this game.
It’s sad that USA became the last market to show experimental concepts like this one. Japan Studio is doning a lot of unique experimental games in these days.
Well, I already see some angry comments here….

I heard of this but didn’t know exactly how it worked, now I really can’t wait for this!! This makes waking up in the morning sound somewhat fun! Couple questions though:
1) Is it a different group of 12 random people in our “club” everyday or the same 12?
2)Is there anyway for people on our friends list to join our club (if they wake up at the same time)?
3)I’m assuming it would, but would this app require our vita’s to be “on” all night in sleep mode for it to work?

1. 12 random people every day.
2. Friends can’t be selected. We debated on this for a while — on the one hand it’ll be great to have fun with your friends but on the other it would wreck the curve with trophies. We’re still in talks about this topic.

@BlueBl1zzard – I have been using this app for the last 4-5 months (whenever it was released in japan), so these are the answers to your questions.

1) Yes its random every time, assuming there are enough people with their app set to the same time yours is “waking up”

2) no, you will not see your friends unless they are randomly partnered with you

3) yes, the vita needs to be in the soft off mode, not the hard off

@XFRod

You don’t need to mess with the internal clock to get the 365 wake up trophy, just set the alarm to go off, then change the alarm for 1-2 mins later, rinse and repeat, if you really want to grind it out.

This would require my Vita to be in standby mode, right? It would be AWESOME if I didn’t need to leave it in standby the entire night. The battery really isn’t that great, and I don’t like to leave it charging all night, apparently overcharging is bad for batteries.

Thanks for finally releasing this. It would be interesting to hear about the challenges and issues that were faced with localization. Trying to imagine what they were makes me curious.

On another note – I would be more apt to buy more digital software if Sony would allow some major memory card makers to create cheap, generic versions of the Vita memory cards. And all the new DRM, restrictions, online requirement, etc. have made it really slow, frustrating, and inconvenient to use the ps3 to manage vita software. it was much easier with the psp (until Sony changed things.)

When you go into your list of past downloads, there should be ways to easily sort all the content in various ways and to search for specific items or ranges/types of items. When you have hundreds of things listed, it’s very inconvenient to step through a linear, chronological list screen by screen.